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Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi is an amusement park that is inside Yas Mall. Indoor amusement park.

As the name said it is all about the Ferrari.

So if you are a fan of cars and especially Ferrari this is a place to visit.

It has roller coasters and different rides, but there is also some Ferraris in display to look at, karting, movie about creating a Ferrari, driving experiences…

You pay a entrance fee which is not cheap but if you buy it online and in advance you can get a discount to 15% and the best deal is if you buy combo ticket for Yas Water World and Ferrari World.

Most attractions are for free but for some you have to pay extra. Like the karting which is the cheapest and only one we payed for. Others were more expensive and we didn’t want to pay more.

Here are the attractions we tried:

Bell’ Italia is the ride in a retro car through the Italy, it’s a slow ride and suitable for everyone. It’s just to bad that some Italian music wasn’t playing.

Benno’s Great Race is something for the children, also a slow ride through the world of Benno who is a mouse.

Cinema Maranello is a captivating film about how Enzo Ferrari made his motoring dream become a reality.

Flying Aces is a rollercoaster and a good one. I liked it.

Formula Rossa – they say it’s the fastest roller coaster. You get goggles and you are blasted 240 km/h in 4.9 seconds . Good rollercoaster.

Galleria Ferrari is a gallery with collection of unique Ferrari’s.

Karting Academy is where you can take a ride in a karting car, you pay extra for it.

La piazza stage is where the performers make they shows .

Made in Maranello is a tour of the Ferrari factory where you can see how Ferrari is made.

Speed of magic is a 4D attraction.

Turbo track is a ride where you get shoot very fast forward and then come back slowly. It’s kind of cool but also very short.

Tyre twist is like the cups in other amusement parks. You sit in a tire and turn around until you get sick J

Viaggio in Italia – Take your seat, be elevated high into the dome of this multi-sensory simulator and look at the spectacular Italian landscape. This one was very interesting because you get lifted very high but you really don’t have a feeling that you are so high.

Fiorano GT Challenge is another roller coaster with parallel tracks and two coasters go in the same time – it’s like a race. On this rollercoaster behind us was a obese guy who couldn’t get out of the chair and was stuck. I don’t know how they took im out .

Also there is a place where you can drive a remote control cars or a boat through the Venice.

It’s fun to spend few hours there, but you don’t need a whole day for it.

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Yas Beach is located on sands of Yas Island. It’s a private Beach and you have to pay an entrance fee to enter, but if you stay in Radisson Blue hotel (or other Yas hotel) you get the ticket for free from the concierge.

There is a infinity pool and kids pool, snack shop, towels for rent, pizza shop, beach lounge and the Yas beach store .

You can rent a Cabana if you want (too expensive for me) or use loungers for free.

It’s a sandy beach and probably nice if you are there in some other time and not in summer.

We were in Abu Dhabi in august and you can imagine how it is when the temperature is over 40 degrees.

We got on the beach around 10 AM and were the only one there, Yas beach just for us.

It was hot as hell and the water was very warm.

We looked around, dipped into water for a while and had the water on ice wich the waiter brings you to the beach (you can order other drinks an also alkohol).

After 11AM people start getting to the beach.

You have to take the bus to the beach or taxi – Yas Express bus is free and Radisson blue hotel has a complimentary bus that gets you to the beach for free also.

We were on the beach until 12 AM and decided to go because it was to hot.

It’s nice , but I saw a nicer beaches. If you have a ticket definitely go to the beach but if you have to pay for entrance I’m not sure is worth.

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It was around 9 PM when we got to Abu Dhabi. We have passed customs control, they scanned our eyeballs and we went to get our luggage .

When the exit doors opened I thought I would die. We were hit by the heat, I never felt so hot.

My T-shirt was wet in a minute. It was like 39 degrees.

I expected the heat but this is something else, lot of humidity and high temperature.

Very unusual. We have in summer 35-38 but it doesn’t felt like that.

And it was night, during the day the temperatures went to 47-48 degrees.

The girl from Big Bus told us that in July they had 56 degrees. OMG, I can’t even imagine.

We wanted to take the bus to get to our hotel, we were situated on Yas Island, but there was no bus going there. And I have checked that on the internet and there should be a bus, but there wasn’t.

I learned that most information in internet about transport in Abu Dhabi is not really correct.

When we were looking for a bus, we found the machine that sells Hafilat card.

Hafilat – which means ‘buses’ in Arabic – is a pre-paid card that allows you to travel on public buses.

Temporary cards cost AED 5 and have a validity of 14 days.

These cards are issued at the main bus stations, a few shopping malls and the airport.

This is the best card for tourists.

We wanted to buy a card but the machine didn’t want to take our paper money – something was wrong with it.

Then a man approached us and asked if we need help. He bought us the card with coins and we gave him paper money. He was very nice and helpful.

Then we started to look for the bus and couldn’t find it. The second man came to us and asked us if we need help and he called the station and asked about the bus to Yas Island and it happened that there is no bus going from Airport to Yas.

I’m not sure if that it because we were out of the season there. I did find on the Internet that there is a bus, but there wasn’t.

We had to take a Taxi. He took us to our hotel and we checked in. Radisson Blue Yas Island.

In my next post I will write a little about the hotel.

It was late so we just took a walk around the hotel and then went to our room to take a much needed shower and sleep.